Description

Having built a simple application, Bob takes you on a tour of the Windows Phone 7 Emulator: the software that mimics the real phone's operating system so you can visualize how your application will behave once it is installed on a real phone device. He demonstrates how to re-orient the phone, using the three buttons, modifying phone emulator settings, and more.

The Discussion

Khuong Nguyen

I use visual studio 2010 Ultimate to build the application but why is my emulator run slowly and has no graphic effect ( i mean animation when changing between pages ) like yours? Sorry for my bad English. Thanks

@Khuong -- Hi, I recorded these using the best machine Best Buy sold, with the best graphics card and memory. I did this because when I first tried recording, I experienced the same thing you did. I think a lot has to do with your video graphics card. However, that shouldn't change the overall development experience -- just with the startup and initial transitions of the emulator. Hope that helps!

Thanks Bob, I like this visual approach. Minor issues, the dot on the emulator from my laptop keyboard shows ">"(shift+ .) on first input. The Num-Lk set before setting my laptop keyboard to the emulator cannot be altered. I know I cannot explain all conditions to this apearences, you will undersand that. Just to give you feedback. One more is the blurry text on the emulator on your video. I tried to spell the url to your website but could not get that clear.

Thanks for the video series, they have been great. Question, in the video where Bob was able to use the emulator internet explorer for web browsing, I wasn't able to connect to the internet from the emulator. The error message suggested troubleshooting wireless connection. My home wireless connection is encrypted and obviously working since I'm streaming the video over the net. So, any suggestion on why I can't connect to web pages from within the emulator?

Hey guys! Excellent series. I found it while searching for some tutorials on XNA development. I was wondering if there was a video series like this (preferably from you guys) that focused on Live Arcade or Games for Windows development? I can find tutorials for days out there, but none really nail the "absolute beginners" aspect like this does. Thanks!

Hi all!First i have to congratulate you about your videos, they are great! ^^My problem is that i install the "Windows phone tools" like video one but when i create my first aplication when i click the button to say "Hello world" my windows phone emulator says "windows phone emulator is doing a complete os boot" and then, after some minutes, the visual studio 10 says that there was a "timed out", it seems that it waits for emulator but not response from there was adquired... :(.Im working on Asus Eee pc 1215N (Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz + ION2, 3GB DDR3 Ram, 250GB HDD and Windows 7 Professional 64 bits).It can be use the intel graphics media accelerator 3150 or NVidia ion2 graphic card. I have configured as default Ion2 becouse i have read the WDDM dependences and the same problem happens.I have updated drivers for intel and NVidia ION but i can't run the windows phone emulator to use it for develpement.Any help?Too much thanks :DRegards from Spain! ^^